Tor A. Strand

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors examined the association between biomass fuel use for cooking and cognitive abilities in Nepalese children at 4 years of age from a community-based sample, and found that children in these families had lower mean FSIQ than children in families with no biomass use (83.3 (95%CI 84.5, 86.0)), with a mean difference of −2.2 (95%) -3.9, −0.5) adjusting for demographics and socio-economic status.

TL;DR: Along with parental ethnicity other than Nordic, age was the strongest determinant of 25(OH)D, with adolescents having the lowest levels, with a significant seasonal variation with lowest levels in mid-winter and highest in late summer.

TL;DR: It is found that the increase in OWOB presented a uniform shift in the entire BMI distribution for 15–16-year-old Norwegian girls and was not due to a larger shift in a specific subpopulation in the upper percentiles.

TL;DR: Compared to standard methods of collecting urine for measuring iodine concentration, the diaper-pad collection method does not substantially affect the reliability of the measurements.